Two Editors in Turkey Arrested for Magazine Cover that ‘Incites Crime’

On Tuesday, the editor in chief and managing editor of Nokta magazine were arrested in Istanbul, Volkan Cansiz reported for Today’s Zaman, “under Article 313 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) for inciting the public to armed conflict.” Turkey held elections on Nov. 1, and leading up to the elections, another media organization critical of the government was raided and taken over by a trustee committee.

Copies of the magazine were confiscated, Hurriyet Daily News reports, “on the grounds that it ‘incites crime’ due [to] its cover, less than two months after it was first confiscated for ‘insulting the president.’”